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PARSONS (or PERSONS), ROBERT (1546-161o) , English Jesuit and political agitator, son of a blacksmith, was born at Nether Stowey, Somerset, on the 24th of June 1546. The vicar
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secret religious and political mission to England. The two emissaries engaged in political intrigue in England and on the Continent. In 1581 Campion was arrested, but Parsons made his escape to Rouen, whence he returned to Rome, where he continued to direct the English mission. In 1588 he went to Spain, where he remained for nine years, founding
rector of the English college at Rome in 1597, and died there on the 18th of April 1610Parsons was the author of over 30 polemical writings, mostly tracts. Among the more important are Certayne Reasons why Cntholiques refuse to goe to Church (Douai, 158o), A Christian Directorie guiding Men to their Saluation (London, 1583-1591, 2 parts), A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crowne of Ingland (1594), Treatise of the Three Conversions of England (1603-1604, 3 parts), an answer to Foxe's Acts and Monuments. For portrait, see Gentleman
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